Hamra Abbas, Kaaba Picture As A Misprint 7, 2014

Kaaba Picture as a Misprint is series of prints that explores how reorienting objects distorts how they are read. The works began by Abbas breaking down the iconic image of the Kaaba into its simplest, yet still recognizable form—two rectangles, one placed atop the other. Through experimentation, these original Kaaba pictures evolved by deconstructing the black form into cyan, magenta, and yellow versions of the shape. These were then printed off center so that only when the three colors are layered upon each other is the image black. 

The series speaks to the different ways in which religion may be understood and experienced; By deeming her method a misprint, the artist links the quest for truth and perfection through religious devotion to multiple ways of interpreting that truth.

Archival pigment print

Edition of 25

61 x 48.8 cm 24 x 19 1/4 in